Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLong before he left One Direction, just days after the launch of its final tour, Zayn Malik was obviously the member who was least jazzed about being in a boy band, and fame in general.
He was the first to leave and the first to release a solo album, so it’s not surprising that after the blockbuster success of 2016’s Mind of Mine” and the over-reach of the sprawling follow-up (titled, with unfortunate foresight, “Icarus Falls”), he’s embraced a more stripped-down, intimate approach, one that’s much less deliberately pop.Positioned as “the album he’s always wanted to make,” “Nobody Is Listening” opens with the moody, semi-rapped “Calamity,” a dark musing about mistrust and anxiety (“My brain lives with the.
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